Cloud platform newcomer
TransLattice, which geographically distributes and accelerates applications for
enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments, on July 25 released version 2.0 of
its Java-based platform.
TransLattice's IP aims to improve
availability and performance of transactional applications for both on-premises
and cloud environments, CEO Frank Huerta told eWEEK. The package provides
resilience, scalability, policy control and compliance-plus increased
application performance-to global and mobile users, Huerta said.

"Outages can cost enterprises
as much as $5,000 a minute, and they can have an enormous impact on a company's
reputation and brand," Huerta said. "TransLattice's goal is to knock
60 to 70 percent off the cost of running global data and applications."

TransLattice demonstrates a
departure from the centralized application stack model, which has become
increasingly complicated, cumbersome and costly, Huerta said. Traditional
installations use many layers of infrastructure, requiring significant
integration work, and this complexity makes it difficult to achieve high levels
of availability. These centralized deployments are vulnerable to outages that
can bring an organization's applications down for hours or days.
In contrast, the geographically
distributed TransLattice Application Platform architecture ensures that
organizations can deliver consistently available applications and data,
leveraging resources on-premises, in the cloud or both, Huerta said.
TransLattice's Application Platform,
according to Huerta:

Provides built-in resilience for Java applications due
to the intelligent, distributed placement of data on multiple nodes. If a
node failure occurs, the rest of the cluster will be unaffected and users connected
to the offline node will be automatically redirected to a working node.

Delivers elastic throughput and storage capacity, via
horizontal scale-out of commodity servers and cloud instances. This
reduces the costly overprovisioning of infrastructure and allows
organizations to quickly scale to meet changing business requirements.

Equips organizations to meet varied availability goals
and data jurisdiction compliance requirements for both on-premises and
cloud deployments through policy controls for redundancy and data
location.

Anticipates users' application needs and makes data
available where and when it is needed, improving response time and
productivity.

"There have been a lot of
semi-enterprise, somewhat-distributed computing initiatives in the last few
years, but none have really addressed core enterprise applications with needs
for transactional rigor," said Anne MacFarland of MacFarland Consulting.
"TransLattice's Lattice
Computing architecture has the potential to fundamentally change the economics
of data and application access in what are often very expensive applications.
This approach promises to improve an enterprise's business global agility and
resiliency using a distributed deployment model and simple scalability."

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